The Spread of Buddhism
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GREECE, THE FINAL FRONTIER? THE WESTWARD SPREAD OF BUDDHISM Erik Seldeslachts (Ghent) Introduction The apparent absence of Bud ...
132 erik seldeslachts culturally increasingly iranianised and indianised, while they lost political contact with the West. At th ...
greece, the final frontier? 133 possibly in Kua times, when the region referred to was included in an empire also covering No ...
134 erik seldeslachts Buddhism with several other systems.^9 One may conclude that there is an Indian, but probably no Buddhist ...
greece, the final frontier? 135 is explained as the consequence of a military victory of Candragupta over Seleucus.^14 With Hart ...
136 erik seldeslachts ascetics.^17 Megasthenes explains the difference between the ascetics and the Brahmans, a distinction more ...
greece, the final frontier? 137 (I or II) of Syria and his neighbours medical facilities for both animals and men. Again, in his ...
138 erik seldeslachts Yonakaloka (one ordination on 17 or 73 conversions) is seven to ten times lower than the overall gure fo ...
greece, the final frontier? 139 of special interest to the problem at hand, for they give us an idea of the manner in which typi ...
140 erik seldeslachts at the ceremony in Anurdhapura a certain Mahdeva is said to have been present with a retinue of no less ...
greece, the final frontier? 141 to power after overthrowing the Mauryas in about 186 BC. Some of these kings may be recognised a ...
142 erik seldeslachts adoption of Buddhism or Hinduism should also be understood within the tradition of pagan pluralism and Hel ...
greece, the final frontier? 143 largely unknown in the West.^52 G. A. Koshelenko supposed that the appearance of Buddhism in Mar ...
144 erik seldeslachts Arab conquests.^57 But even in Islam elements are present to which Buddhism may have contributed more than ...
greece, the final frontier? 145 inhabitants of Khorsn. Bahrs are Buddhist vihras or monasteries, but what is meant by farkh ...
146 erik seldeslachts also said to be from vihra), and westward till well beyond Hamadn, in what is now Kurdish territory. Acc ...
greece, the final frontier? 147 Asia, but they might as well be Christian monasteries.^76 If they are Buddhist complexes, there ...
148 erik seldeslachts “Greek” is to be distinguished from yavana, which no longer meant “Greek” as in Sanskrit, from which the w ...
greece, the final frontier? 149 Buddhist sphere of in uence from an early period, again nothing which is recognisable as Buddhi ...
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